Events in August 2010
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Aug. 1
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The Convention on Cluster Munitions, a landmark international treaty to ban cluster bombs takes effect. |
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Aug. 2
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A Muttahida Qaurmi Movement legislator of the Sindh assembly Raza Haider, is gunned down in the Jama Masjid in Nazimabad, Karachi. |
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China holds ‘Vanguard-2010’, a major air defence exercise along the country’s coast bordering Yellow Sea. |
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Aug. 4
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Kenyan voters overwhelmingly approve a new Constitution in a referendum. |
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Aug. 6
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Pakistan says recent monsoon floods biggest-ever disaster in the nation’s history, with 1,32,000 sq.km. affected in Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa (formerly) NWFP) and Punjab provinces alone. |
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Ten medical workers are killed in a remote area of northern Afghanistan by Taliban gunmen. |
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Aug. 7
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India and Bangaladesh sign an agreement on a $ 1-billion line of credit extended to Dhaka by New Delhi. |
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At least 43 persons are killed and 185 wounded in Basra, Iraq following a roadside explosion and two car bombings. |
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Aug. 8
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At least 127 people are killed and nearly 1,300 missing after mudslides sweep away homes in Gansu provine, Northwestern China. |
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Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, an Indian-American professor at the University of Texas, Austin shares the Dirac Medal with Italian physicist Nicola Cabibbo. |
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Aug. 9
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Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame wins a second term gaining a landslide victory. |
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Aug. 11
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British researchers announce the emergence of a new class of antibiotic-resistant superbug – NDM – 1 (New Delhi metallo-betalactamase-1) |
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Aug. 13
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A Sri Lankan court finds former Army Chief General Sarath Fonseka guilty of dabbling in politics while in uniform. |
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The U.S. President Barack Obama signs into law the Southwest Border Security Bill in Washington. |
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Aug. 16
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A Boeing 737 jetliner with 131 passengers aboard crashes on landing and breaks into three pieces on San Andres island in Columbia. |
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Aug. 17
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At least 51 people are killed and more than 100 injured after suicide bombers attack hundreds queuing up outside a military recruitment centre in Baghdad. |
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Columbia’s Constitutional Court suspends defence pact with the U.S. |
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Aug. 18
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Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan agree to step up joint fight against terrorism and narcotics – at a quadripartite summit in the Russian Black Sea Resort of Sochi. |
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Aug. 19
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Last U.S. combat brigade leaves Iraq seven years after leading the invasion of the nation. |
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The floods in Pakistan a “slow motion tsunami”, says the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at a special U.N. session. Nations pledge $254 million. |
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China pulls off a tricky and uncommon feat in space flight, manoeuvring one of its satellites to within about 300 metres of another. |
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Aug. 21
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Australians cast ballots in snap national elections. |
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Dutch solo sailor Laura Dekker (14) begins her round-the-world record bid from the Portuguese port of Portimao. |
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Iran begins loading fuel into its first nuclear power plant in Bushehr. |
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Aug. 23
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After a ten-hour hostage crisis, six passengers of a tourist bus are killed in the Philippines capital Manila by a sacked police officer who is later short dead by security forces. |
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Blasts leave 35 dead in Pakistan’s South Wazirstan tribal agency. |
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Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete is crowned Miss Universe 2010 at the 59th annual pageant held in Las Vegas. |
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Twentynine civilians are killed in clashes sparked by terrorist attacks on army barracks in Somalia. |
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A Federal Court in Washington blocks most government financing for embryonic stem cell research. |
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Aug. 24
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Six MPs among 30 killed in rampage at a hotel in the Somalia capital Mogadishu. |
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Fortytwo persons are killed when a passenger jet overshoots a runway in northeast China. |
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Aug. 25
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At least 46 persons are killed in a string of attacks in Iraq. |
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Aug. 26
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The High Court of Bangladesh declares illegal the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution that legalised the autocratic rule of General Hussein Muhammad Ershad. |
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Aug. 27
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Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki signs a new Constitution into law. |
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Aug. 28
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China passes a first-of-its-kind law to set up “mediation committees” to handle conflicts at the grassroots level. |
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Aug. 29
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Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin opens oil pipeline to China. |
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The Sinabung volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupts for the first time in 400 years. |
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“Modern Family”, “Mad Men” sweep the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards announced in Los Angeles. |
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Aug. 30
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The Sri Lankan Cabinet approves changes to the 1978 Constitution and lifts ban on a third term in office for President Mahinda Rajapakse. |
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Aug. 31
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Thirtyone persons are killed and over 200 injured as triple blasts targeting a Shia procession rock Lahore, Pakistan. |
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The U.S. President Barack Obama announces the end of the American combat mission in Iraq. |
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